A Future Happening: The Man Without Qualities' Unfinishable History.
Robert Musil's monumental, unfinished novel The Man Without Qualities (1930–1943) utilizes its vast possibilities to inscribe a re-figuration of dominant historical materialism. It reflects on different approaches to history beyond a "mnemotechnic" of inscription, instead encouraging engagement with...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 48; no. 4; pp. 1 - 20 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Indiana University Press
Summer2025
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